Capítulo 4 – Lección B

On Monday, February 11, 2013 we will start learning Lección B from Capítulo 4. Your Computer and Textbook Assignments are the following (use your Aventura Textbook and the Textbook Audio Program):

1.  Page 154 - Vocabulario I: A mí me gusta... Listen and follow this new vocabulary on page 154. Write it down in your notebooks and learn how to use the expression: "A mí me gusta..." (I like...). Example: A mí me gusta patinar (I like to roller skate).Translate all these new words and expressions. At the end, repeat: ¿Dónde vives? Vivo en la República Dominicana.
2. Page 155 - Activity 1: ¿Quién es…? Look at this page on your textbook and answer before
   they do. 1) Me gusta nadar (who likes to swim?), etc. Translate numbers 1 - 6.
3. Page 156 - Diálogo I: Me gusta mucho (check the textbook). Read the conversation and translate it. Repeat and learn to pronounce this dialogue.
4. Page 156 - Activity 3: Understand this exercise answer ¿Qué recuerdas? - What do you remember?, answer the questions from the textbook.
5. Page 156 - Activity 4: Algo Personal (¿Qué te gusta hacer?) - What do you like to do? Write everything in your notebooks and translate please! Answer the question ¿Qué te gusta hacer?
6. Page 156 - Activity 5: ¿Qué les gusta? Me gusta... In your notebooks make two columns, titles: Natalia and Andrés and under their names write what you hear (what they like to do) and circle the things they both like, make sure you enter the numbers too. Example: Me gusta tocar el piano (just write: tocar el piano and the other vocabulary words - you don't have to write the complete sentences). Translate too!
7. Page 158 - Activity 7: Te gusta/Te gustan. Answer the following questions. Write everything down and learn how to answer these questions in a positive and negative way (very important). Translate too!
8. Page 161 - Activity 11: Do this exercise. Listen and answer before they do. Try to understand this exercise. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask Mrs. Feld.
9. Page 161 - Activity 12: ¿Qué les gusta? Complete this exercise. Follow the model. They give you the answers here, try to answer before they do. Also translate.
10. Page 162 - Activity 13:  ¿Les gusta a todos en tu familia? Translate and answer all the questions about what everyone in your family likes to do.
11. If you complete all of the above, you may continue with Vocabulario II, page 164 (Characteristics of People) - write all these new vocabulary in your notebooks and translate. 
12. Continue with Activity 18, page 164 ¿Es morena? ¿Es calvo? ¿Es bajo? ¿Es delgado? ¿Son guapas? ¿Es fácil? ¿Es pelirroja? ¿Son canosos? Answer with complete sentences.
13. Page 166 - Diálogo 2: ¿Cómo es ella? Check the textbook, read this dialogue with your book. Repeat and learn to pronounce this dialogue. Translate too. 
14. Page 166: ¿Qué recuerdas?  Answer these questions (they answer them for you, see if you can answer them before they do, and if you understand what they're asking). ¿Cómo es Natalia? ¿De dónde es Natalia? ¿A quiénes les gusta bailar? ¿Con quién está Natalia? Learn how to answer these questions.
15. Page 166 - Activity 21: Algo Personal ¿Cómo eres tú? ¿Cómo es tu amigo favorito o amiga favorita? Dónde estás ahora? Can you answer these questions?
16. Page 166 - Activity 22: ¿Cuál es el opuesto...? (the opposite). They give you the answers, see if you can answer before they do. Learn the opposites of all these adjectives. Write them all down in your notebooks. (8 answers)
17. Page 169 - Activity 26: ¿Cómo son? Describe your relatives, your friends and yourself using the appropriate form of "verbo ser" and one or two adjectives. Modelo: El profesor de inglés es calvo y muy divertido. 1) Yo... (what would you say here?). 2) Mi madre 3) Mis abuelos 4) Mi dentista 5) Mi amiga favorita 6) Los otros estudiantes de la clase de español y yo. 

Homework: Continue working on the above assignments and complete the handouts I gave you, pages 48, 50 and 52 of the Grammar & Vocabulary Workbook on "Using gustar to state likes and dislikes" (I will collect them on Wednesday, February 13, 2013). Make sure you copy in your notebooks the "Estructuras" from pages 158 and 159. Workbook pages (that you need to study for next quiz and test: pages 72, 73 (#4), 74 and 75. Check the vocabulary on pages 173 and 179 and create index cards for all these new vocabulary. We will be done Chapter 4 the end of February. Some of you didn't give me the "Family Tree" assignment, if I don't get it by Wednesday you will get an F (0) on this assignment.

Videos to watch: Me gusta 1 and Me gusta 2 (also on "Favorite Links"). 

Possessive adjectives	Personal pronouns
mi (my)	mí (me)
tu (your)	tú (you)

Examples: (Yo) A mí me gusta cantar (I like to sing) - note: mí has 'tilde' because it's used as a Personal Pronoun here. (Tú) A ti te gusta bailar (You like to dance). A él le gusta patinar (He likes to roller skate). A ella le gusta ir de compras (She likes to go shopping). A usted le gusta leer (You like to read - formal). A nosotros nos gustan las playas de Costa Rica (We like the beaches in Costa Rica or Costa Rica's beaches). A vosotros os gusta ir de compras (You like to go shopping - plural form). A ellas les gusta estudiar español (They like to study Spanish - girls). A ellos les gusta jugar al béisbol (They like to play baseball). A ustedes les gusta tocar el piano (You like to play the piano - plural/formal).

Learn to use gusta and gustan (when do you use one or the other?)